ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

Functional deficiencies regarding the family and the juvenile delinquency 265- Which are the eventual modifications interfered in the group’s life thatfavor the diminution or the growth of the deviated behavior?The behavior disorders almost always appear first in the familial plan,being more or less important and more or less tolerated. Soon, the schoolenvironment, the first touchstone of the social adapting, would become veryinteresting; the lagging behind of the study, the indiscipline, the absences, thelack of adaptation to the collective, the passivity, are all frequent consequences 4 .But the disorders could also appear outside the family or schoolenvironment: an anti- or a-social behavior, delinquency, vagabondage,integration in inadequate groups.The child’s difficulties or manifestations could appear only in certainconditions, but, generally, they multiply themselves and cause chain reactions.Insisting on the importance of the familial climate, on the role of the familyregarding the child’s education and the creation of conditions for thedevelopment of the child in his/her environment, signifies the consolidation ofvary possibilities in order to see the problems coming from the otherenvironments.Usually, at the basis of the familial climate of the minor delinquents arethe affective, moral and educational conditions which create an atmosphere ofincertitude, indifference, incapacity or educational incompetence, in the case ofthe so-called “passive” families or with an immoral, violent, with conflicts andoffences climate – in the guilty families. Must be noticed that in order todetermine the type and the functionality of the family, was used its degree oftolerance regarding the behavior disorders: the more evoluate the environmentis, the more active is the intolerance regarding the behavior disorders, and thediscovery it’s more precocious and more efficient.An objective factor of the familial environment, the family structure, isconsidered, by many authors, an element that generates infringements of the law,if, of course, we talk about the disorganized family in which appeared a divorce,a decease, an abandon or even the reconstituted family.In order to verify this idea, we wanted to establish if there are anydifferences of quality and quantity, depending on the structure of the family. In thisway, we selected 9 factors, to illustrate the familial climate and the educationalcapacity of the family, such are: the organization of the life conditions, theorganization of the spare time, the control of the group of friends, the supervision,the discipline, the parent’s authority, the relationships between parents, the culturallevel of the family and the relationships between parents and children.After analyzing the aspects each case has, in the three types of familialstructure (the organized family, the disorganized family, the reconstitutedfamily), we noticed the significant distribution: starting with the most importantone, these factors appear in all three types.4 Ibidem, p.165.